Great Throughts Treasury

"If the moral and physical fiber of its manhood and its womanhood is not a state concern, the question is, what is?"

"The submergence of self in the pursuit of an ideal, the readiness to spend oneself without measure, prodigally, almost ecstatically, for something intuitively apprehended as great and noble, spend oneself one know not why - some of us like to believe that this is what religion means."

"Nothing is stable. Nothing absolute. All is fluid and changeable. There is an endless “becoming.”"

"Justice, though due to the accused, is due to the accuser also. The concept of fairness must not be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep the balance true."

"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."

"The submergence of self in the pursuit of an ideal, the readiness to spend oneself without measure, prodigally, almost ecstatically, for something intuitively apprehended as great and noble, spend oneself one knows not why - some of us like to believe that this is what religion means."

"To enforce one's rights when they are violated is never a legal wrong, and may often be a moral duty."

"The law... must have a principle of growth."

"We are what we believe we are."